‘Musings from the Green Room’ — My Latest Hot Type Column in Byline
For this week’s Hot Type column in Byline, I report from behind-the-scenes at the Byline Festival
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As a nightlife columnist for the Los Angeles Times when the newspaper still mattered — in its pre-oligarch days — I always loved the backstage moments. Or the hanging out in alleyways, or the invites to cluttered offices of management. I always liked being in the heart of the nightlife hurricane, where the pulse was and the realness. It takes a lot of people to make a good time, and I liked documenting the scene from the inside.
As I hung out in the Green Room of the Byline Festival in the UK over the weekend, furiously preparing for my panels (thank you Alex and Jackie for your rapid responses to my last minute panic lol), I took a moment to scan the room, and what I saw were the best people in the world doing the very best they can to inform during this time of massive and well-funded deception. And I was grateful.
So for this week’s Hot Type column, I decided to report from behind-the-scenes at Byline Festival — an annual event that is making history.
It’s not every day, I get to chat about Napoleon with Christopher Steele and meet Carole Cadwalladr irl. Or sit on a panel with a brilliant MP, who some think may be the next mayor of London, or listen to the mayor of Greater Manchester, who I’m told may be the next head of the Labour Party and a future PM. So many amazing people.
Here’s a brief recap:
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